When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
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Education never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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